..In addition, there is an on-going debate as to whether attention to the inducer is necessarily required for eliciting a visual concurrent, or whether the latter can emerge in a pre-attentive fashion...

..The aim of this study was to compare the immediate effect of different supportive conditions (VR versus non-VR conditions) on motor output in patients and healthy control children during training with the driven gait orthosis Lokomat*...

..A further important point is that these hub regions are even differently operating at rest supporting the idea that these hub characteristics are predetermining factors of coloured-hearing synaesthesia...

..The present study aimed at evaluating electrophysiological correlates of musical sound perception in CI users to help achieve the long-term goal of improved restoration of hearing in those individuals...

The encoding of vowels and temporal speech cues in the auditory cortex of professional musicians: an EEG study

..We provide evidence for the existence of a neuronal network of secondary and higher-order areas belonging to the auditory and motor modality that is important in the integration of auditory and motor domains...

An empirical reevaluation of absolute pitch: behavioral and electrophysiological measurements

..The results point to a specific role of the left UF with regard to altered white matter volume in SAD. However, results should be replicated and functional correlates of altered UF volume be determined in future studies...

Long-term exposure to music enhances the sensitivity of the auditory system in children

..We suggest that C.S.'s pattern of functional asymmetry, characterized by audio-motor control using a right-sided network, could be a factor in his exceptional piano-playing ability on both the standard and reversed keyboard...

Enhancement of auditory-evoked potentials in musicians reflects an influence of expertise but not selective attention

..Furthermore, the data indicate that non-musicians are as proficient as musicians when it comes to rhythm perception, suggesting that correct rhythm perception is crucial not only for musicians but for every individual...

From emotion perception to emotion experience: emotions evoked by pictures and classical music

..Connectivity alterations were widespread and not restricted to the FuG and IPS. Therefore, synesthetic experience might be only one phenotypic manifestation of the globally altered network architecture in GCS...

Time course of neural activity correlated with colored-hearing synesthesia

Thomas BaumgartnerDepartment of Neuropsychology, Laboratory for Neuroeconomics and Social Neurosciences, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandNeuroreport 18:261-5. 2007

..These findings strongly indicate that arousal is a necessary, but not sufficient, prerequisite for triggering the motor system of the brain. We offer a potential explanation for this discrepant, but intriguing, finding in the paper...

The effects of working memory training on functional brain network efficiency

..Taken together, this is the first longitudinal study that provides evidence for the plasticity of the functional brain network underlying WM. ..

General emotion processing in social anxiety disorder: neural issues of cognitive control

Annette Beatrix BrühlClinic for General and Social Psychiatry, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich, SwitzerlandPsychiatry Res 212:108-15. 2013

..In contrast to studies in healthy subjects, cognitive control was not associated with increased activation of prefrontal regions in SAD. This points to possibly disturbed general emotion regulating circuits in SAD...

Michael KometerNeuropsychopharmacology and Brain Imaging, Clinic of Affective Disorders and General Psychiatry, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich 8008, SwitzerlandJ Neurosci 33:10544-51. 2013

..This change in N170 potentials may be important not only for psilocybin-induced states but also for understanding acute hallucinatory states seen in psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease...

..In particular, lower cortical thickness was associated with larger N1 amplitudes. This is well in agreement with previous functional magnetic resonance studies reporting a thinner cortex to be related to a larger functional response...

The case of a left-handed pianist playing a reversed keyboard: a challenge for the neuroscience of music

..The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a massed compared to a distributed practice upon visuomotor learning as well as upon the regional oscillatory activity in the sensorimotor cortex...

Simultaneous interpreters as a model for neuronal adaptation in the domain of language processing

..These theories are currently the most established intelligence theories in neuroscience. Our findings revealed robust evidence of an efficiently organized resting state functional brain network for highly productive cognitions...

..Thus, we demonstrate that a physical leisure activity induces training-dependent changes in gray matter and assume that a strict and controlled training protocol is not mandatory for training-induced adaptations of gray matter...

..Last, in terms of speed and regularity of movement, the digits broke down into 2 different clusters; the thumb, index finger, and middle finger formed 1 cluster superior to that formed by the ring and small fingers...

..Exposure to bright light such as sunlight elicits a sneeze or prickling sensation in about one of every four individuals. This study presents the first scientific examination of this phenomenon, called 'the photic sneeze reflex'...

The role of the right dorsal premotor cortex in visuomotor learning: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study

Elke PraegDepartment of Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandNeuroreport 16:1715-8. 2005

..We conclude that the right dorsal premotor cortex is not directly involved in associating visual with motor cues. We suggest that this area is intimately involved in selection and preparation of forthcoming movements...

..Our findings might have implications for the understanding of multimodal integration and may encourage similar research into dysfunctional perceptual phenomenon such as hallucinations in schizophrenics or in Charles Bonnet syndrome...

Music listening while you learn: no influence of background music on verbal learning

..Whether listening to background music enhances verbal learning performance is still disputed. In this study we investigated the influence of listening to background music on verbal learning performance and the associated brain activations...

Sexual dimorphism in the parietal substrate associated with visuospatial cognition independent of general intelligence

..For the same movements fewer neurons need to be recruited. The different volume of the activated cortical areas might therefore reflect the different effort necessary for motor performance in both groups...

..No significant positive correlation between internal error and brain activity could be detected. These results indicate that motor errors have a differential effect on brain activity compared with non-motor errors...

The plasticity of the superior longitudinal fasciculus as a function of musical expertise: a diffusion tensor imaging study

..In order to reconcile our observations with general aspects of development of fibre bundles, we introduce the Pioneer Axon Thesis, a theoretical approach to formalize axonal arrangements of major white matter pathways...

Differential magnitude coding of gains and omitted rewards in the ventral striatum